I've recently been using my 5 most weekends & if I have the time & its dry, I've been going out for the odd drive in the evening. I've been tinkering with airfilter setups, boost levels & suspension settings so usually I go out for a test or just for the sake of it now thats it's back on the road. The thing is, everytime I go out I get spotty faced young idiots in tatty old Nova's, Escorts, Uno's & the like, going out of their way to chase after me, sit mm from my bumper & trying to goad me into racing them.
Last night I went out to fil up with petrol, I use Tesco 99 & the nearest one is 10miles away in either direction, so Colchester or Clacton. I chose Clacton. I filled up, pottered out of the station & went up to the exit rounabout to head of home. A couple of said spotty's then appeared behind me in an Uno Turbo. I pulled off round the roundabout & take the exit. As I accelated from the exit in second, not very hard I might add, I change to third & glance in my mirror to see (& hear I might add!) the Uno almost impaling itself into the back off my car
. How he missed me I'll never no. It then came past me with the passenger hanging out of the wndow making, shall we say, hand gestures lol. They then overtook the lorry that was in front of me
& dissapeared down the bypass in a cloud of black smoke lol. I then overtook the lorry , was abit anoyed tbh, then thought, face...bothered....carried on my merry way. As I came to the roundabout at the end of the bypass, I saw them going all the way round to go back the way they came! So they actually went out of ther way to almost crash into my car
When I'm out in my impreza I get the odd idiot wanting to mount me from behind but in truth it's generally VAG oilburners that seem to think they are on a race track
My impreza is a standard Hawkeye WRX SL, so no big rear wing, or chavtastic rally wanabee graphics & a subtle, non load Prodrive exhaust, so still got the burble, but not very loud at all tbh. I really like driving it & anoying little chav to$$ers leave me alone.
My five imo, looks really nice & is in great condition, but it could be said that with big shiny wheels, a loud large exhaust & pretty low suspension setup it does look abit, shall we say.....ahem.....chav, as my mates say.
If I put the std wheels, suspension exhaust on, so it looks & sounds std do you reckon I'll get less agro?
Personally I don't think it will make a blind bit of differance. The fact thats it's a 5GTT means it will still attract the sort of unwanted attention that I really can't be arsed wth these days as I've more that grown out of those times . In truth, I think the writings on the wall. Sad, yes, but change is good.....the classifieds are beconing soon for my5 me thinks.lol